Wed., 12.08.2026, 18:30 How can architecture and urban design shape open, vibrant and future-proof cities in an age of multiple crises? In collaboration with the ZEIT STIFTUNG BUCERIUS, this talk explores how urban vulnerability can be transformed into opportunities for resilient, inclusive and thriving urban futures. Partner: ZEIT STIFTUNG BUCERIUS
How can we create a fairer, more affordable Berlin? Bringing together the Architect’s Union and the Berlin Tenants’ Union, this conversation explores how collective action can connect labour, housing and urban justice.
On the eve of the exhibition opening, the talk brings together the participating architects and experts from Germany to reflect on the profound social, cultural and spatial transformations shaping contemporary China and forming the context for a new generation of architectural positions.
Why are women highly engaged in architecture and activism, yet often less visible? Helen Fleming, Simay Peters and Lena Olvedi discuss feminism, rethinking spaces and how bold ideas can transform the built environment.
On the occasion of the exhibition opening at the Tchoban Foundation's Museum for Architectural Drawing, Kengo Kuma gives a lecture followed by a conversation with Erieta Attali and Sergei Tchoban, moderated by Barry Bergdoll. Partner: Tchoban Foundation. Museum for Architectural Drawing
A Lab Talk and Book Launch exploring how policy, planning and design are reshaping urban futures in Germany and the Netherlands. Partner: Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
Scholars from the Urban Theory Lab at the University of Chicago and the Habitat Unit at TU Berlin – in dialogue with leading voices in critical urban geography and political ecology – reflect on the socio-ecological entanglements linking cities to distant geographies of extraction, production, circulation and waste. Partners: Urban Theory Lab, Habitat Unit
Gaudí anniversary, Sagrada Família and Barcelona World Capital of Architecture 2026: The talk explores urban futures between historical legacy and contemporary transformation. Partner: Generalitat de Catalunya
Bringing together students from Germany, Romania and the United States, this two-week international summer school explores one of Berlin’s most contested urban questions: Can Tempelhofer Feld evolve without losing the qualities that make it unique? Partners: New School of Architecture & Design, San Diego (NSAD); Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urban Planning, Bucharest (UAUIM); Bochum University of Applied Sciences, School of Architecture (HSBO)
Students investigate Berlin’s urban fabric through the lens of climate, sustainability and computational design, exploring the relationship between urban form and nature. Partners: Iowa State University, German University of Technology in Oman (GUtech)
Students from the University of Kentucky explore how formal investigations can be translated into site-specific architectural interventions within the public realm of Berlin. Partners: University of Kentucky
This workshop brings together students from six European universities to explore the museum as a unique architectural space – at once social and intimate, public and deeply experiential. Partners: Erasmus+ Blended Intensive Programme (BIP) Partner Universities
Imagine it’s 2051, and everything has turned out rather well. Ecological collapse, social fragmentation, political polarisation – the defining crises of the early 21st century are now distant memories. We inhabit a world we once only dared to imagine. But how did we get here? Partners: Berlin International University of Applied Sciences
12 – 26 November 2025 Students from the University of Sydney return to Aedes as part of a multi-year project that explores novel approaches to sustainable design with relevance in both Australia and Germany. Partners: University of Sydney
28 August – 3 December 2025 Students from Pratt Institute, led by Prof. Dagmar Richter, spend the fall semester at Aedes, focusing on Berlin's experimental approaches to public space and housing. Partners: Pratt Institute
Students from Iowa State and GUtech Oman engage in international, multidisciplinary collaboration. The studio focuses on sustainable urban design and the assessment of environmental performance strategies across multiple scales within Berlin’s urban context. Partners: Iowa State University, German University of Technology in Oman (GUtech)
Students from the University of Kentucky explore the relationship between human scale and activity in Berlin and develop objects that encourage social interaction and engagement with the built environment. Partners: University of Kentucky
An international workshop that brings together students from nine universities across eight countries to explore the rich and varied architectural legacy of Berlin’s housing developments. Partners: Erasmus+ Collaboration
Interdisciplinary students from Berlin International explore the principles of democratic design, asking who designs, for whom, and how we can ensure that spaces and places are accessible, inclusive and representative of diverse voices. Partners: Berlin International University of Applied Sciences
Students from Pratt Institute, led by Prof. Dagmar Richter, spend the fall semester at Aedes, focusing on Berlin's experimental approaches to public space and housing. Partners: Pratt Institute
Students from Iowa State University, led by Prof. Ulrike Passe, have worked on a proposal to convert Galeries Lafayette Berlin into a library and apartments, aiming to create a net-zero emission facility. Partners: Iowa State University
European universities from countries such as Germany, Italy, Greece, France, and the Netherlands will collaborate to collectively examine and envision the future trajectory of Freie Universität Berlin. Partners:Vanvitelli – Anhalt – Thessaly – ENSA – ETU
The studio is part of a multi-year project to explore approaches to sustainable design by addressing a building program that has relevance in both Australia and Germany. This year, we explore Designing with and on Country as a model for sustainable design that can be applied anywhere in the world. Partners:University of Sydney
The "Crisis and Transformation" workshop promotes the journey as a learning system. It is structured as an interdisciplinary experience that explores the journey as a knowledge system and its role in students' active learning.
Partners: Universidad Diego Portales
The program's focal point isthe exploration of Berlin's innovative strategies for public space and housing, with a focus on collective urban life. Partners: Pratt Institute, New York
The AAVS Urban Phoenix Berlin 2023 program is centered on the focal point of the ICC, Berlin. This iteration delves into the practical realms of urban and architectural innovation, alongside purposeful public interventions.
Partners: AA Visiting School London; TU Berlin
Pratt Berlin is an international summer intensive program that focuses on issues of urbanity, social entrepreneurship, and civic engagement.
Partners: Pratt Institute, Kunsthochschule Weißensee
The German University of Technology Oman leads a workshop at ANCB about sustainable mixed-use developments.
Partners: German University of Technology in Oman (GUtech)
Through the intentional selection and harnessing of influential phenomena, the studio seeks to uncover a new underlying organisational logic of space.
Partners: University of Kentucky
The workshop project, Organic City_Hansaviertel Berlin (Interbau 1957), connected with the concept of organic architecture and design in order to develop new perspectives of interdisciplinary conceptual learning.
Partners: University of Thessaly, Volos Greece; ensa Nantes, Nantes France; University Luigi Vanvitelli, Napoli Italy; Anhalt University, Dessau Germany
Two classes from two Berlin schools participated in the Junior campus, which were organised in conjunction with the exhibition Huts, Temples, Castles at Aedes Architecture Forum in Berlin.
In this investigative collaboration format, ANCB partners with caravan manufacturer Erwin Hymer Group and three universities to explore regional and urban spatial development perspectives. How can mobile perspectives for sustainable travel, living, energy supply, digital networking and flexible working/living emerge at the levels of the region, the communities and the landscape?
Partners: TU Berlin; Leibniz Universität Hannover; HafenCity Universität Hamburg; Erwin Hymer Group
This workshop and exhibition showcases experiments by students who worked in interdisciplinary teams to create new spatial and visual concepts for Aedes. Partners: Berlin International University of Applied Sciences
Although climate change is the greatest challenge facing humankind today, we do not seem to be able to come to any international consensus on how to begin to mitigate the causes. This studio asks, what can architecture do? Partners: University of Technology Sydney
Art, architecture, and design students from the Universidad Diego Portales, in Santiago, Chile, visited 27 buildings in Berlin, in 7 days, 5 tours and synthetized their experience with photographs, drawing tools, written perceptual analysis and atmospheric visualizations, presented in a final review at ANCB. Partners: Universidad Diego Portales
The students from Hochschule Darmstadt were asked to rethink the Aedes campus, its heritage, its current and future use. The studio focused on the spatial organisation related to the different functions and the connection between the interior and the outdoor spaces, providing alternative solutions that could accommodate Aedes’ exhibition, workshop and event spaces as well as the café in new and exciting ways. Partners: Hochschule Darmstadt
An interdisciplinary group of students from Pratt Institute New York envisions alternative futures for the decommissioned (airport) Flughafen Tegel. The studies focus on the main terminal building’s unique capacity to flexibly adapt to transitory uses, allowing it to serve acute needs through initiatives of social entrepreneurship and civic engagement. Partners: Pratt Institute
After two years of forced absence, Iowa State University continued their summer presence at ANCB with climate and environmentally conscious innovative housing projects along the Görlitzer Rail Line Park, an abandoned rail line as stimulating edge condition with exposed demising walls (Brandwände). Partners: Iowa State University
The University of Kentucky design studio at Aedes Berlin explores urban innovation through two exciting projects: interactive, gestural installations for Berlin Zoo and pioneering housing prototypes for Schumacher Quartier. The students integrate human scale, materiality, and urban context to reshape Berlin’s cityscape. Partners: University of Kentucky
On-demand living spaces hovering inside a building, fluid shared environments and new access opportunities for hybrid living/working spaces are the stunning outcomes of this ANCB Student Applied Innovations Lab.
Partners: Schindler, Ebikon, Leibniz University of Hannover; TU Braunschweig; TU Berlin
The BERLIN ARCHITECTRUAL GUIDE is the outcome of an audiovisual research conducted by students visiting from the Universidad Diego Portales. It aims to depict the multiple historical and ideological layers that interact throughout Berlin, reflecting the city's rich and diverse contemporary condition. Partners: Universidad Diego Portales
The 2019 Bucerius Summer School workshop examines questions regarding 'Transit Spaces' on spatial, social, artistic and political levels through input presentations and participatory workshops. Partners: Partners: Bucerius Summer School, Zeit-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius, Hamburg
Students undertake research into the history of Berlin's experimental housing projects and develop design proposals of their own.
Partners: University of Melbourne
This Summer Design Studio is the third in a series of three workshops by environmental architecture students of the Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology.
Every year the summer school examined Berlin under a unique theme. In 2017, 21st Century Housing Typologies were in focus, 2018 Urban Surface as a Social Media and in 2019 Common Spaces of the Berliner Hof. Partners: Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology
Students from the City College New York, German University of Technology in Oman and Iowa State University were challenged to design a building in Berlin meeting future climate demands in light of climate change. Partners: Iowa State University, City College New York and German University of Technology in Oman
Studierende aus der Hochschule Darmstadt befassen sich mit der architektonischen Entwicklung eines Baufelds am Alexanderplatz in Berlin, unter Berücksichtigung des aktuellen Masterplans und der Nachbarschaft zur Volksbühne. In einer Workshop-Woche in Berlin sollen Konzeptansätze erarbeitet werden, die im weiteren Verlauf des Semesters in Dessau vertieft werden. Partners: Hochschule Darmstadt
In this design workshop, TU Graz master students developed experimental mass timber housing at Eutritzscher Freiladebahnhof in Leipzig, focusing on urban planning, individualized pre-fabrication, and multi-use spaces, during a one-week field trip to Berlin. Partners: TU Graz
The river environment of the Spree is the focus area to analyse and discuss the long-term interactions between humans and water along rivers as catchment areas for ecological. technological, industrial and societal realities. Partners: TU Braunschweig;; University of Pennsylvania.
